Abstract: The review proposes a reconsideration of Die osterreichisch-ungarische Monarchie inWortund Bild, also known as the Kronprinzenwerk (KPW), an ethnographic presentation of Austria-Hungary in 24 volumes which appeared between 1889 and 1902 in two parallel versions, one in German and the other in Hungarian. Besides reference to the renewed attention the KPW met with since 1989, and an overview of its mode of production, I try to formulate some notes of caution for its present-day readers. I argue that its main interest is heuristic. Viewed in context it can add details and vividness to our picture of the latter days of the Habsburg Empire.

KRONPRINZENWERK AND THE NATIONALITÄTENPROBLEM IN AUSTRIA-HUNGARY

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1. Vols. 1-5. After 1889 the subtitle is changed to Auf AnregungundunterMitwirkungweilandSeinerkaiserl.undkpnigl.fioheitdesdurchlauchtigstenKronprinzenErherzogRudoljbegonnen,fortgesetztunterdemProtectorateIhrerkaiserl.undk6nigl.Hoheitderdurchla-uchtigstenFrauKronprinzessin-WitweErzherzoginStephanie.The3rd,and fnalversionofthesubtitleisAuf AnregungundunlerMitwirkungweilandSeinerkaiserlundkonigl.floheitdesdurcillauchtigstenKronprinzenErzherzogRudolf begonnen,fortgesetztunterdemProtectoratederFrauCrifinStephanieL6nyay.geborenePrinzessinvonBelgien.HeroginvonSachsen-Cobz�rg. The change came after Stephanie's marriage in 1900 to Count Elemer Lonyay. Analo- gous changes apply to the Hungarian edition. A Croatian translation of the parts on Croatia seems to have appeared the same year as the official vol. 24 on Croatia and Slavonia, in 1902. While this edition does not seem to be mentioning the names of the authors of the respective parts, it does contain extensive annotations by the publisher and translator. See the abstract to the presentation of Jasna Capo-Zmegac (Zagreb) at www.zrc-sazu.si/isn/pdf/folkwww.pdf, cit. below.

29. 564 pp. The first edition, of 1842, was Handbuch ftrReisendedurchDeutschlandunddenostereichischenKaiserstaat and appeared in one volume, by the 6th edition there were two volumes, from the 7th edition, 1857, on, the volume on Austria became independent, from the 16th edition, 1873, it covered the whole of Austria-Hungary. The last pre-war edition (1913) be- ing the 29th, there appeared a volume on Austria only in 1926 as 30th edition, with a separate print of 6sterreich-Ungarn(ohnedasheutigeOsterreich) from the 29th edition still available. A volume on Konstantinopel,Balknnstaaten,Kleinasien,Archipel,C.ypern, Zweite Auflage, ap- peared in 1914 (1st ed., 1905). The growth of the Baedekers follows the growth of Empires, along their railways and other means of locomotion such as ships, later bicycles and automobiles. A title from the same editor, predating any of his travel-books, is also noteworthy: UbersichtdesKriegs-SchanplatzesdereuropiiischenTurkeivon derDonauunddenGrenzenvonServienundMakedonienbisKnnstantinopel.EinBeitragzurMilitair-GeographievonPhillippvonWussow,MajorimKBniglich-PreufJischenGeneralstabe, Koblenz bei Badeker, 1828. This has the follow- ing prefatory note: "Der K¡¡mpf der griechischen Nation zur Wiedergewinnung der seit Jahrhun-- derten entbehrten Gilter einer gesetzlichen Freiheit und Wohlfahrt hat das besondere Intetesse des civilisirten Europa's von Neuem nach dem Oriente gerichtet, und die in der Christenheit vor- berrschende Idee er dereinstigen Verdrangung der Turken aus ihren europaischen Eroberungen den Betrachtungen und Meinungen der Gegenwart naher geritckt." It covers much of the battle- ground of the various Balkan Wars of following centuries.